Mevan Babakar

Kurdistan

  • Agatha Christie’s Come Tell Me How You Live

    Agatha Christie’s Come Tell Me How You Live

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    I enjoyed reading Agatha Christie’s memoirs “Come tell me how you live” which recounts her time in Iraq and Syria in the 1930s, with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan.

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  • From London to Arbat Refugee Camp, Iraq

    From London to Arbat Refugee Camp, Iraq

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    Last week the money donated by strangers on the internet helped deliver 210 blankets and 175kg of rice to Arbat Refugee camp, Iraq. In July, I started a crowdfunding campaign to raise £500 to feed the displaced families in a refugee camp just outside my hometown in Iraq. Within 8 hours we had not only reached my…